CHAPTER LV.

Another chapter whereby air is given.

I am the Jackal of jackals, I am Shu, who convey breezes, in presence of the Glorious one([1]), to the ends of the sky, to the ends of the earth, to the ends of the filaments of Cloud([2]).

I give air to those Younglings as I open my mouth and gaze with my two eyes.

Notes.

[1.] The Glorious one. This is the most usual reading. Pa has Râ.

[2.] Filaments of Cloud. Cloud is the sense, not the translation of